The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook


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Golden Cake  
/4 cup  
butter  
1
Yolks 5  
eggs  
7
/8 cup flour  
1
/2 cup  
sugar  
1
/4 cup  
milk  
1
1/2 teaspoons  
baking powder  
teaspoon orange extract  
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Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and yolks of eggs beaten until thick and  
lemon−colored,  
and extract. Mix and sift flour and baking powder, and add alternately with milk to first  
mixture.  
Omit orange extract, add one−half cup nut meat cut in small pieces, and bake in individual  
tins.  
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Mocha Cakes  
Bake a sponge cake mixture in sheets. Shape in small rounds, and cut in three layers. Put  
layers  
tube.  
together with a thin coating of frosting. Spread frosting around sides and roll in shredded  
cocoanut. Ornament top with frosting forced through a pastry bag and tube, using the rose  
Begin at centre of top and coil frosting around until surface is covered. Garnish centre of top  
with a candied cherry.  
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Frosting. Wash one−third cup butter, add one cup powdered sugar gradually, and beat until  
creamy. Then add one cup Cream Filling which has been cooled. Flavor with one−half  
teaspoon  
vanilla and one and one−half squares melted chocolate.  
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This frosting is sometimes colored pink, yellow, green, or lavender, and flavored with rose,  
vanilla, or a combination of almond and vanilla. Large Mocha Cakes are baked in two round  
layer cake tins, each cake being cut in two layers. Layers are put together as small cakes. The  
top is spread smoothly with frosting, then ornamented with large pieces of candied fruits  
arranged in a design, and frosting forced through pastry bag and tube.  
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Chapter XXXI − CAKE  
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